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ClearSky Project Design
ClearSky develops carbon credit projects around the world. At the moment, we are primarily involved with forestry and renewable energy projects, although we are continually pursuing work in other sectors.
Projects can generate carbon offsets in 2 ways:
- Increasing carbon storage, such as reforestation or improved forest management projects.
- Avoiding carbon emissions, by substituting renewable fuels for fossil fuels, or protecting forests from deforestation.
What we do:
We help develop projects that deliver large amounts of emission reductions, as well as valuable benefits to local communities and native ecosystems. Our projects are real, additional, permanent, and certified under leading certification standards to ensure that the carbon offsets are legitimate and demonstrable. Certifications that our projects usually seek are usually the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Climate Community and Biodiversity (CCB), or Climate Action Reserve (CAR). Our projects not only develop emission reductions, but often produce other social and environmental benefits.
How it works:
ClearSky works with the project owner to create carbon offsets from a project or activity. Project owners are landowners or land-owning groups, or the owners of the farms or facilities that are creating the emissions reductions.
Each project is unique, because each property, facility, and owner is unique. ClearSky will generate a Proof of Concept (POC) document based off of the landowner’s completion of an information-gathering document – the Project Idea Note (PIN). The POC will determine for the owner if their project qualifies to receive carbon offsets and what carbon certification standard and associated methodology is appropriate. The owner then enters into a contract for professional services with ClearSky to conduct project development. Project development generally takes 9-18 months. The landowner will begin receiving carbon revenue after project development has been completed and the project has been approved by a carbon certification standard.
Depending on the capacities and needs of the owner, project development entails all or some of the following:
- Selection of appropriate carbon project standard
- Identification and coordination of various stakeholders or partners
- Preparation of project time-line and budget
- Development of carbon methodology for calculation and modeling
- Generation of a carbon management plan which can be inserted into an existing forest or facility management plan
- Preparation and submission of the full Project Design Document (PDD) to the carbon project standard
- Coordination of third-party project validation and verification
- Resolution of any corrective actions that may arise
- Developing marketing materials, educational pieces, or grant proposals for financers, decision-makers or leadership
- Brokerage of the project's carbon offsets
- Assurance that the project honors the owner’s requests and any existing commitments to the environment or social objectives
Begin your project:
For specific information about our past and current projects, please visit our ClearSky Projects page. If you have an idea for your own climate change mitigation project and would like assistance making it happen, please Contact Us.
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